GRAPES FROM BRAZIL! Didn't even think about checking fresh produce! But I guess I have to. Green seedless grapes from the store the other day and was eating some this morning and saw on the side "Product of Brazil". Oh dear. Try, try again. Not that I have anything against Brazil and maybe all the green grapes at my local grocery store imported. I don't know. Thing is, I have a responsibility to check.

My mother just called me and said they bought a Catnip Chia pet for our cat for Christmas and I just cringed because I just knew they were made in China and Wikipedia just confirmed that. I didn't say anything because it's a done deal but I guess at some point I should share with them my quest to buy more American products and maybe they will try to do the same.

More socks for the hubby (he likes socks), ordered on the Internet before all this started and wouldn't have mattered because they are a certain brand of athletic sock that he really likes so I would have bought them regardless. Guess where these were made? South Africa! I found that very interesting. I don't know the situation of manufacturing in South Africa. Is it like China where the workers are extremely underpaid? I suspect it might be. And even more interesting is we have family in South Africa. Not in the sock manufacturing business though. I should ask them what they know about manufacturing jobs there although South Africa is HUGE. These could have been made in part of South Africa that is no where near them.

Hellman's mayonnaise, made in America. But where do they make all those plastic containers that foodstuffs and toiletries are in? How many jobs would it create if all the American manufacturers bought their supplies from American manufacturers?